Deposit and collection receptacle



M. S. SHOLL.

DEPOSIT AND COLLECTION RECEPTACLE.

APPLICATION FILED APR.ZI, I919.

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DEPOSIT AND COLLECTION RECEPTACLE.

APPLICATION FILED APR.21, I919.

Patented Aug. 24, 1920.

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SHOLL, OF CHICAGO,

PATENT OFFICE.

ILLINOIS.

DEPOSIT AND COLLECTION RECEPTACLE.

Application filed April 21, 1919.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, MAX S. SHoLL, a citizen of the United States, residing at Chicago, inthe county of Cook and State of' Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Deposit and Collection Receptacles, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in deposit and collection receptacles and more particularly to a device of this class that is adapted for use as a bank and calendar. One object is to provide a device that will tend to form among the members of society habits of thrift and economy, the object being to require a person to drop a coin each day in a bank to cause the calendar portion of the device to register the days of the month correctly. With the foregoing and other objects in view the invention consists in the combination and arrangement of parts to be hereinafter fully described pointed out in the appended claim and illustrated in the accompanying drawings which form a part of this specification and in which- Figure 1 is a view of the device in front elevation and partly in section to afford a better illustration.

Fig. 2 is a vertical sectional view of the invention.

Fig. 3 is a section taken on line 3-3 of Fig. 2.

Fig. 4 is a cross section taken on line 4-4 of Fig. 3.

Fig. 5 is an enlarged fragmentary View illustrating the coin-actuated rock shaft and connections.

Like reference characters denote corresponding parts throughout the several views.

My bank-calendar comprises a casing 1 in the front wall or face of which I form an elongated observation slot 2, an oblong observation slot 3 and an opening for the removable deposit drawer 4. A rotary shaft 5 is journaled in the said casing in alinement with the casing-slot 2 and provided terminally with handles 6 disposed outside the casing, a roller 7 being made fast to said shaft within the casing, the names of the months of the year being printed upon said roller so that one month at a time is visible through the casing-slot 2. The roller 7 and shaft 5 are manually rotated by the handles 6 to successively display the months. In

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 24, 1920.

Serial No. 291,685.

the front face of the casing a stub shaft 8 is arranged whereon a rotary circular disk 9 is secured upon one face of which figures from one to thirty-one inclusive are formed near the disk periphery, the said figures be ing so spaced apart and arranged that one figure at a time is visible through the perforation 3 in the casing 1 as the disk is roitated.

Directly opposite each figure upon the opposite face of the disk is a lug 10, or one lug may be arranged upon each radius that would pass through any given figure and each lug is adapted for engagement with a finger 11 formed integral with a sleeve 12 pivotally arranged upon one end of a rock bar 13 that is fulcrumed upon the aforesaid stub shaft 8'and provided at one end with the counterbalance weight 14:. The said sleeve 12 is provided with a stop-finger 15 and with a stem 16 that carries a weight 17 through the medium of which said sleeve is yieldingly retained in a predetermined position with the finger 11 disposed at right angles to the side walls of the casing 1. A

. wing 18 made fast to the bar 13 is normally disposed contiguous to the lower end of a curved coin passage 19 which opens through the top of the casing so that a coin 20 when dropped into said passage will pass therethrough and fall upon the wing 18 depressing the same and the rock bar substantially into the position shown dotted in Figs. 2 and 3', a lug 18 carried by said wing 18 being in engagement meanwhile with the stopfinger 15 to prevent rotation of the sleeve 12. The weight 14 serves yieldingly to retain the winged end of bar 13 in contact with the coin passage. This rock-bar-movement will cause the finger 11 to engage with one lug 10 and so move the disk 9 one-thirtyfirst part of one complete revolution at which time the coin 20 will be below and out of engagement with the extreme lower end 21 of the coin passage. The coin will now drop into the deposit drawer 4 and the counterbalance weight 14 will return the rock bar to normal position ready for engagement with the next lug 10 of disk 9. This move- 23, the remote ends of which levers are bent downwardly and normally disposed in grooves 24L formed in the sides of the deposit drawer to prevent withdrawal of the same from the casing. The adjacent ends of said rock levers, it will be noted, are disposed immediately below the disk 9 and clips 25 secured to the front casing-wall limit the rocking motion or said levers and prevent lateral movement of the same. To the periphery of the disk 9 ll secure a head 26 adapted for engagement with the adjacent ends of the rock levers simultaneously, this head being so placed that the said lever engagement will take place at the time the figure thirty-one is displayed upon the disk through the casing perforation 3. When the adjacent ends of the rock levers are depressed their remote ends are raised out of the drawengrooves 24: thus freeing the drawer from the casing and permitting its manual withdrawal so that its contents may be removed.

Should a month, such as February have but 28 or 29 days it will be necessary to drop additional coins into the coin passage to display-the figure thirty-one before the deposit drawer will be released. and the same is true for months having but thirty days. At the end of one complete disk revolution one month has passed and itwill be necessary for the attendant or user to manually turn the roller 7 to display the next consecutive month through the casing peroration 2. It is my intention to use coins of a certain denomination, such as nickels, dimes or quarters to operate the device as natures the weight of the coins used should be constant or nearly so, and to so construct the disk 9 that the weight of the head 26 will be ofi'set at the opposite side of the disk by a slight increase in the thickness of the disk material. 4

I What is claimed is As an article of manufacture, a slotted casing provided with a removable drawer, a circular shafted rotary disk arranged within said casing and formed with peripheral markings adapted to be displayed individu' ally and consecutively through one'oi the slots in said casing as said disk is rotated, lugs peripherally arranged upon said disk and alining with said peripheral markings, a coin passage within said casing, a rock bar fulcrumed to the shaft of said disk, a weight terminally carried by said rock bar to yieldtil) ingly retain the same in engagement with i said coin passage, means lulcrumed to said casing and releasably engaging saiddrawer for normally retaining the same within said casing, a head peripherally carried by said disk for operative engagement with the last named means at each revolution of said disk, and a finger carried by said rock bar for engagement successively with said lugs,

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own 1' have hereto affixed my signature in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

7 MAX S. SHULL.

Witnesses it. B Jorrnsron, H. J. Sannnns. 

